Letter People was jointly produced by KETC/St. Louis and what is now Abrams & Co. Publishers.
The Letter People were created in 1972 by a group in Waterbury, Connecticut called New Dimensions in Education. The principles were simple: This was an educational show that taught children in kindergarten through first grade how to read using characters to represent letters of the alphabet.
Theme Song:
Come and meet the Letter People
Come and visit in the family
Words are made of Letter People
A, B, C, D, Follow me
The original Letter People were shaped in a quickly-identifiable fashion. All the consonants were called "Letter Boys," and the vowels were "Letter Girls." It was a perfect compliment to Title IX that Letter Girls had to be in every word the Letter People made.
The Letter People television series was produced 1975-76
in the facilities of KETC in St. Louis. That station held TV distribution rights
for the series, even after a "new generation" of Letter People came
about in 1997. (By this time, New Dimensions in Education had become part of
Abrams & Co. Publishers.)
Elayne Reiss-Weimann and Rita Friedman created The Letter People in 1974. They sold their idea to educational publisher AlphaTime (later AlphaOne), and illustrator Elizabeth Callen was hired to design the look of the series and its characters.
The program's basic concept was simple: Each letter of the English alphabet was represented by a unique character with traits derived from its letter. The consonants were male, and the vowels were female (the "Letter Girls"). Reiss-Weimann, Friedman and Callen also wrote two series of books about the characters, Fables from the Letter People and Read-to-Me. Each Letter Person also had an accompanying song (available on 8-track and vinyl record), and inflatable vinyl effigies in two sizes (12-14 inches or 30-inch "life-size") known as a "Huggables". Other merchandise included film strips and flash cards. Educators who adopted the program were trained in its implementation, and The Letter People was soon picked up by hundreds of schools across the United States.
While thousands of children were learning about the Letter People in school, thousands of others were being exposed to them through the television series based on the program. The show was produced by PBS affiliate KETC in St. Louis, Missouri, and the first episode aired in 1974. The show was extremely popular with chldren, and it quickly spread to other PBS stations across the country.
The Letter People consists of 60 episodes. In each 15-minute installment, the Letter People (relatively primitive puppets) undertake various adventures in Letter People Land, a dark, featureless place populated by strange people and creatures. Episodes usually focus on introducing new Letter People or new sounds formed by combining two Letter People together (such as /CH/ or /OU/). Other episodes take the Letter People to more exotic (though still featureless) locales such as outer space, while a few highlight the characters' conflicts over various sounds (such as Mr. C fighting Mr. K and Mr. S for his sound). Another common feature of the show is "The Catching Game", a sort of game show hosted by Monty Swell where the Letter People must form words by positioning themselves correctly side-by-side.
The show has aired almost continuously since 1974.
Some images from the show:
EPISODE GUIDE:
Season 1
1. Meet Mr. M
Mr. M tells of a story in which his munching mouth (which
is how he gets his sound) got him into trouble at the market. Later Sam Gump
puts Mr. M to the test: Can he recognize words that start with his sound?
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NOTE: Mr. M is the first letter person we ever meet.
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2. Meet Mr. T
Mr. T retells the time he talked his way out of a confrontation
with a bully called Terrible Tough Tony. It seems tall tales accompany Mr. T's
tall teeth (which is how he gets his sound) wherever he goes.
w: Thomas McDonough d: Thomas McDonough
NOTE: The editors are not totally sure, but it is believed
Dome Productions in Toronto provided animated sequences for The Letter People.
What's so special about the film sequence of kids with various musical instruments
beginning with T? It's the only time in the entire series that we see human
beings at face value (no disguises or funny voices).
Each episode opens with an announcer saying "The Letter People. Today,
[episode name]." This is the only one of the 60 shows in which the announcer
doesn't sound like Jack Neal, president of Blue Ridge Public Television.
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3. Meet Mr. F
Mr. F can't find the right shoes to go with his funny
feet (which is how he gets his sound).
w: Thomas McDonough d: Thomas McDonough
NOTE: In this episode, Mr. F sings a song in which he
demonstrates words beginning with "F," culminating with the word "finished."
The background music for this sequence is the same music used later by Mr. L
in his "Lemon Lollipops" song in "Meet Mr. L." At the end
of that song, Mr. L also says "finished."
Check out that long-nosed green monster throwing a frisbee. He appears two shows
later as the Nasty who does battle with Nardo the Detective and Mr. N.
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4. Meet Mr. H
Mr. H is afraid of the barber shop. He thinks haircuts
hurt. That is why Mr. H has that horrible hair (where he gets his sound).
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5. Meet Mr. N
Mr. N causes a disturbance during story hour at the library,
and helps Nardo the detective tame a Nasty, who turns into a Nice Nasty. Mr.
N sings "Meet Mr. N". STARRING MR. N, NARDO, THE NASTY, NED THE NEWSMAN,
the LIBRARIAN and a NURSE.
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NOTE: Repeat business! The Nasty in this episode had been seen two shows before, throwing a Frisbee during Mr. F's pitch for capital and lower-case F.
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6. Meet Mr. B
Its Mr. B's birthday, and he meets Boris the Bulletin
Board (who sounds just like Boris Badenov). The Letter People play party games.
Mr. B sings "Meet Mr. B" STARRING MR. B, MR. H, MR. F, MR. T, MR.
M, MR. N, BORIS THE BULLETIN BOARD, CAPITAL B, LOWER-CASE B, CREEPY BOY PUPPET
WITH BIKE, CREEPY GIRL PUPPET WITH BEACHBALL, and CREEPY MAN PUPPET WITH BANJO.
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NOTE: Watch for a quick cameo of Mickey Mouse's dog Pluto in the animated segment.
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7. Meet Miss A
Miss A arrives in town with a deceptive sneeze (hers
is the same sound that starts "A-choo"). She plays a carnival game
in which her sound appears in all four parts.
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8. What's the Catch?
A new television station is starting up in Letter People
Land. All sorts of dreams fill the heads of the Letter People, as they try songs,
jokes, and juggling. But their truest talent is in their sounds, and how their
sounds blend together. There's only one catch: Miss A has to be in all the "sound
catches" for the time being.
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NOTE: No syllable of any English word has the letter combinations NF, NB, or TN, which the Letter Boys try to make. Not tried were the workable combinations NT, FT or (granted, the N is silent) MN.
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9. The Tryout
All the Letter People show up at the new TV station to
try their sound catches on Monty Swell. For the first time, all six Letter Boys
make their sounds catch with Miss A. At Monty's suggestion, another Letter Boy
stands on the other side of Miss A, and they make a word. It's the inspiration
for a game show called The Catching Game.
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10. The Catching Game
Clue A presents Monty Swell with a set of rules for The
Catching Game. Each Letter Person can only make a sound when he or she is in
a "clue box." Of the three clue boxes, the middle box is larger to
emphasize Miss A's role (she's the only Letter Girl at this time). The Catching
Game then airs for the first time.
w: Thomas McDonough d: Thomas McDonough
NOTE: The voice of Tom Fargo was familiar to many Cleveland viewers for his voice-overs on The WVIZ Televised Auction
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11. Meet Mr. Z
Mr. Z dresses in a coat lined with "zipping zippers,"
which is where he gets his sound. He takes the advice of Zero the Owl to go
to Letter People Land, but that means getting through the Zigzag Forest.
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NOTE: Mr. Z would never step into a clue box, although
the "zipping zippers" sound would be used in Episodes 20 and 30
The sets of The Letter People have expanded for the first time, going from basic
black walls to more elaborate backgrounds.
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12. Meet Mr. P
A rustic Western setting provides the drama as Mr. P
tries to get his food back from the Purple Peek-a-boo Palookas.
w: Thomas McDonough d: Gary Twitchell
NOTE: This is the first time the Letter People have used
makeshift clue boxes for a round of "The Catching Game."
This show began a pattern of The Letter People playing "The Catching Game"
in different locations – anywhere they could simulate the three clue boxes
(and always a taller catching clue box). From now to Show 23, the makeshift
Catching Game ended with actual small letters appearing over the heads of The
Letter People on the second time they "make their sounds catch."
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13. Meet Mr. S
Mr. S is a superhero residing in a secret sock cave.
He needs to find the starter for his car, the Sockmobile, to drive his friend
Slaw to the studios of The Catching Game. Trouble is, the starter must be recovered.
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14. Meet Miss E
Miss E drops in (literally) to Mr. Z's apartment. It's
apparent that Miss E is the strongest of the Letter Girls, since her sound comes
from the same sound that starts "exercise." She cleans up Mr. Z's
apartment before making her debut on The Catching Game.
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15. Meet Miss I
Nardo the Detective returns. This time, he needs Miss
I to help catch Ingrid, the pilferer of indigo ink. Miss I is the perfect right-hand
Letter Girl for the job, as her skin is irritated with the mere mention of a
word that starts like "itchy itch."
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16. Meet Miss O
Miss O is the most obstinate Letter Person around, and
that's where she gets her sound. She stubbornly refuses to alter her strange
opera about an ostrich and an omelet. Along the way, all the existing short
sounds are reviewed (not surprisingly, Miss A, Miss E, and Miss I have unsatisfying
roles in Miss O's opera). The abrupt end is not the end, as Miss O introduces
a story about an odd octopus.
w: William Bailey d: Gary Twitchell
NOTE: The platform between the floor and the orchestra pit looks remarkably like the façade at Yankee Stadium.
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17. Meet Miss U
Just what are the Unforgettable Underground Uglies? Miss
U's uncle believes they took his baseball. But the Uglies want more from Miss
U, whose sound is the same sound that starts "upsey-daisy umbrella."
w: William Bailey d: Thomas McDonough
NOTE: Haven't we seen those puppets before? The Unforgettable Underground Uglies are the same puppets that, when dressed up, played the Purple Peek-a-boo Palookas. Later on, under different costumes, they'll play Roscoe and Ringo.
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18. Meet Mr. V
A vandal has defaced Mr. V's violin and other objects
that start with the same sound that starts "violet velvet vest." Both
Mr. V and Mr. B plot strategy when the vandal makes a bold claim.
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19. Meet Mr. L
Mr. L is ready to open up a lemonade stand on the beach,
but he'll have to contend with two villains first.
w: William Bailey d: Gary Twitchell
NOTE: Did you look around the secret lair where the leprechaun
disappeared? It's identical to Mr. S's secret sock cave, only with all the props
taken out.
For all the L words used in this program, one not used was "latch."
Certainly Mr. L had a latch on his lemon locker.
Mr. L begins a quartet of Letter Boys whose sounds suggest food, and all snack
food at that.
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20. The Story of Mr. V; The Story Of Mr. S
Mr. B, Mr. P, and Mr. Z try to add their trademark clothing
items to Mr. V, tearing his favorite vest in the process. In an act of vanity,
Mr. V says he will never end a word so that no one will see the tear on the
left side of his vest.
That doesn't stop the other Letter Boys. They clutter their add-ons to Mr. S's
super socks. Not all of them will come off, though. Mr. Z grants Mr. S the right
to use the "zipping zippers" sound sometimes.
w: William Bailey d: Gary Twitchell
NOTE: Mr. S becomes the first Letter Person to have two
sounds.
The sock boxes in Mr. S's sock cave are labeled "blue socks," "red
sock" and "green socks." Could this have been an example of New
Englanders giving up on the Boston Red Sox? Even though The Letter People was
created by a Connecticut-based company, production facilities were in St. Louis,
whose Cardinals beat the Red Sox in the 1946 and 1967 World Series.
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21. The Squoosh
Mr. V goes to the set of The Catching Game to explain
his restriction (see Episode 20) to Monty Swell. He and other Letter People
try to make the word "vest," which is not easy to do in a clue box
built for one. Mr. S and Mr. T are forced to share the ending clue box to make
the word. Once that's done, Miss E declares that the combination of consecutive
Letter Boys fit into a "Squoosh Box."
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NOTE: If it were not for the wrinkle in the previous episode that allows Mr. S to use Mr. Z's sound, the first "squoosh" animation, focusing on the words "fans" and "pans," would have been ineffective to some extent.
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22. Meet Mr. D
Dolly the Dragon has escaped from her lair. Her owners
get help from Mr. D, whose sound is the same sound that starts "delicious
doughnuts."
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NOTE: Listen to Dolly the Dragon's voice, and run it back through your mind. It sounds like a cross between Carol Channing and Shari Lewis' "Hush Puppy."
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23. Meet Mr. G
A ghost has rid the corner grocer of all his green grapes.
This calls for only one man: the newly-arrived Mr. G. His sound is the same
sound that starts "gooey gum," which is one of the items they offer
to the ghost as a trade.
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NOTE: Every time someone mentions the Greasy Garage, he pronounces ‘greasy' with a Z sound, like Bob Griese (then quarterback of the Miami Dolphins).
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24. Meet Mr. C
A carnival passes through town, filled with everything
starting with the same sound that starts "cotton candy." A camel named
Claude is part of the retinue, as is Mr. C, who is in search of his big break
in show biz.
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25. Meet Mr. K
The Grand Shish of Kebab asks Mr. K to rescue the nation's
King, an expert kazoo player, from the clutches of a kazoo detractor. Mr. K,
donned in leather football gear, heads off amidst a storm brewing in Letter
People Land. Mr. C knows something about Mr. K's sound: it's the same sound
that starts "kicking."
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NOTE: Mr. K is given an actual Western Union telegram from the Grand Shish of Kebab.
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26. The Story of Mr. C and Mr. K
All the other Letter People discover what Mr. C knew
all along: he and Mr. K have the same sound. Both of them go to Miss I's Itsy
Witsy Ice Cream Club where, grudgingly, they try to settle their quandaries.
Which Letter Girls will each stand next to? And is squooshing with Mr. K safe?
w: William Bailey d: Thomas McDonough
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27. Meet Mr. W
Mr. W needs to get back his wonderful wink (which is
how he gets his sound). An impatient man unknowingly helps Mr. W get his wink
back.
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28. Long Sounds
The Letter Girls know well that they have to appear in
every word that Letter People make. Miss A suggests that each of them adopt
new sounds to go with their names.
Before they know what hits them, the Green Gorillas band asks the Letter Girls
for help to keep up their popularity. At that moment, Miss E is coaxed to write
a song about the Letter Girls' long sounds. First with the news is Frantic Freddy,
rambling wreck of the record rack.
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29. Silent E
With each Letter Girl now bearing two sounds, how will
people know which sound she is using? This question hovers over the planned
melodrama. Quickly, the Letter People devise new rules: (A) a Letter Girl can
use her short sound if the Letter Boy is alone at the end of a word (holding
the badge of Cooperation), and (B) Miss E can stand outside the Ending Clue
Box as a signal that the Letter Girl in the Catching Clue Box is using her long
sound.
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30. Two Vowels Standing Side By Side
Nardo the Detective gets an urgent message from millionaire
heir Poopsie. It seems Poopsie can't read a note that begins, "Come to
the B-O-A-T." In a meeting at Nardo's office, Miss O proposes one of the
Letter Girls (the first) should say her long sound while the second Letter Girl
is silent. Once they decipher Poopsie's first note, a few more notes await.
w: Gayle Waxman d: Thomas McDonough
NOTE: This is the only other time in the series Mr. S wears a zipping zipper to make the Z sound in a word.
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Season 2
31. The Hall of Fame: A Review of Short Vowels
Nardo the Detective has become a night watchman at The
Letter People Hall of Fame. Walking through the halls and seeing displays of
the Letter Girls, brings back wonderful memories of sounds and sound catches.
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NOTE: No earlier writers or directors are credited in this or any other review programs.
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32. The Hall of Fame: A Review of Consonants and the Squoosh
Nardo observes the displays honoring Mr. T and Mr. N,
among other Letter Boys. He hints to the events of Episode 20, involving Mr.
V's torn violet velvet vest. If it weren't for the word "vest," who
knows when the Divided Catching Clue Box would have been needed?
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33. The Hall of Fame: A Review of C and K
Nardo retells the stories of Mr. C and Mr. K, their separate
arrivals, their identical sound, and their eventual "agreement" of
who stands before what vowel.
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34. The Hall of Fame: A Review (4)
Nardo provides flashbacks of all the Letter Girls' uses
of long sounds. This includes the Cooperation rule from Episode 29.
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35. Meet Mr. Y
Newcomer Mr. Y is putting everyone to sleep with his
yawning. Sure, it's how he gets his sound, but he and some other Letter People
are needed. There's a creature up in the mountains called the yodel, just the
perfect guest for Letter People Land's upcoming Outdoor Sound Festival.
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36. Y as a Consonant and a Vowel
Before their outdoor Sound Festival, the Letter People
split into factions over the tiring Mr. Y. Miss I intends to give Mr. Y her
sound so that he can appear in the middle or end of words. This becomes the
focal point of the Sound Festival.
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37. Meet Mr. J
Officer Jabberwocky informs Mr. J he must clear out his
jumbled junk—which is how Mr. J gets his sound.
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38. How Mr. G Got Another Sound
The Genius Gem is missing from the museum. It ends up
in Mr. J's junkyard. Mr. G touches the gem and disappears. Now Mr. J and Officer
Jabberwocky must follow a set of instructions that gives Mr. G the right to
use the J sound.
w: Thomas McDonough d: Thomas McDonough
NOTE: Besides giving instructions to the beleaguered Officer Jabberwocky and Mr. J, the radio plays up numerous instrumentals of Letter People songs. All but one had been played on the series before (none would be played after).
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39. Meet Mr. R
Mr. R has no rip in his ripping rubber bands. Can he
trust the repair service of Roscoe and Ringo? Those two renegades are more interested
in comedy revue.
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McDonough
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40. Star Trip, Part One: AR and the Divided Catching Clue Box
For a week—ever since Miss A had disappeared, the
Letter People Space Agency has received signals from a faraway planet. Mr. R
has been assigned to rescue Miss A. This leads to the most extraordinary discovery.
Befriending Lucky Star on the journey to planet Snickers, Mr. R learns of the
Divided Catching Clue Box. With it, Miss A and Mr. R produce the AR sound.
w: Ron Cohen d: Jeffrey Jones (III)
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41. Star Trip, Part Two: The OR Sound
Miss A returns to Letter People Land, but not before
another spaceship whisks a willing Miss O to the planet Snickers. Together she
and Mr. R enter the Divided Catching Clue Box to make the OR sound. But are
they a match for the Empress Mung and her guards?
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42. Star Trip, Part Three: The ER Sound
Empress Mung is truly merciless. She has coaxed Miss
E, Miss I, and Miss U into one of her spaceships bound for the planet Snickers.
Will the Empress get more wondrous sounds out of the Divided Catching Clue Box,
or can the Letter Girls and Mr. R fool her?
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43. The Hall of Fame: A Review (5)
Nardo provides flashbacks of the adventures surrounding
Mr. Y, Mr. J, and Mr. R—including the Star Trip trilogy.
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44. Meet Mr. X
Things seem to be going wrong: Mr. B loses his voice,
Mr. H's head looks even more horrible, and Miss U's goat is cursed into not
bleating. All these things occur when anyone is tagged with a red letter X.
It's up to Nardo the Detective to track down the source of these marks. Once
he does, he offers to help Mr. X get a sound.
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45. Meet Mr. Q
Miss O loses her voice prior to her engagement at the
opera house. She and an assemblage of Letter People must go to the laboratory
run by Mr. Q. Before Mr. Q can help the Letter People, they must help him acquire
a sound.
w: James Scott (II) d: Thomas McDonough
NOTE: This is Mr. Q's only appearance in the length and
breadth of the series. Never again will you get the sense that Mr. Q talks remarkably
like Paul Lynde.
Mr. Q is the last NEW Letter Person we meet.
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46. Runaway Words
A professor's Word Machine goes haywire when the letters
Miss O feeds it, make unconventional sounds. All these words will not change
their sounds for anybody. They will run havoc for the next eight shows.
w: Ralph St. William d: Jeffrey Jones (III)
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47. Meet the Chewy Cherry Choo-Choo
Mr. C convinces Mr. H to make more than one sound. They
agree to make the sound that starts "chewy cherry," but Mr. H holds
out for one clause: "Only if we get into a regular clue box."
w: Thomas McDonough d: Thomas McDonough
NOTE: In the Charlie McChew music video, one can barely notice the letters "Ch" and "ch" that flowed by alongside "chewy" and "cherry." Apparently the video engineer was too interested in showing off the color of progressive rock.
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48. Meet The Thing
An old theater in Letter People Land has been haunted
since 1930 by a creature called "The Thing." Turns out The Thing is
the only creature, other than a Letter Person, to have sounds.
w: Ralph St. William d: Jeffrey Jones (III)
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49. WH and SH
Mr. H loses a bet and agrees to make a new sound with
Mr. W: the same sound that starts "whistle." It's a loud sound, prompting
Mr. S to ask for quiet. He gets to make a quiet sound with Mr. H.
w: Thomas McDonough d: Jeffrey Jones (III)
NOTE: This will be the last show to include the set of The Catching Game.
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50. The Hall of Fame: A Review (6)
This final visit to The Letter People Hall of Fame gives
flashbacks on the previous six shows. We see pictures of Mr. X and the ever-rare
Mr. Q.
w: Thomas McDonough d: Thomas McDonough
NOTE: All the previous displays at The Letter People Hall of Fame were elaborate. Only pictures are donated to the Mr. X and Mr. Q displays. And the SH sound display consists of nothing but the letters "sh."
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51. Double Cooperation and the -ING Sound
Cindy dreams a Cinderella dream of wanting to appear
on the set of Frantic Freddy's Rocking, Hopping, Dancing Party. It's an exciting
prospect, especially because Freddy introduces the -ING sound. It's a heavy
sound, which means that short words with short-vowel sounds must double the
single consonant.
The highlight of the afternoon is the Letter Girls' performance of a song called
The -ING Sound.
w: Ralph St. William d: Jeffrey Jones (III)
NOTE: Look carefully. Mr. W works the camera on the set of Rocking, Hopping, Dancing Party. On that camera is the logo of St. Louis's KETC Channel 9 (as it appears at the end of all episodes of The Letter People).
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52. Silent E and the -ING Sound
Frantic Freddy is trying to stay awake seven full days
while working the Rocking, Hopping, Dancing Party. Early on, he tells all the
viewers that Silent E vacates whenever -ING appears at the end of words with
a long vowel.
w: Ralph St. William d: Jeffrey Jones (III)
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53. Words in Two Parts
Iggy, who we first saw in Episode 15, befriends Chopper,
an emerging karate student who breaks words. Through a flashback, we see how
it began. Chopper enlisted at the Temple of the Silly Bull to learn how to break
words into parts.
w: Ralph St. William d: Thomas McDonough
NOTE: No Letter People appear in this program or the next.
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54. Words in Three Parts
Iggy now becomes a student at the Temple of the Silly
Bull. He reunites with Chopper to break words into three syllables.
w: Ralph St. William d: Thomas McDonough
NOTE: This will be the last time a Runaway Word crashes the proceedings.
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55. The OU Sound
Miss O emits a loud sound when Miss U sticks her with
her umbrella. It's the start of an expanding realm for Miss O. She convinces
Miss U to join her in the Divided Catching Clue Box to create the OU sound as
in "loud." Mr. W gets into the act as well, teaming with Miss O for
both the OU and long O sounds.
w: Ralph DiGuglielmo d: Jeffrey Jones (III)
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56. The OI Sound
Miss I gets a nasty sunburn at poolside to compound her
itchy itch. In the anxiety of the moment, Miss O coaxes her into teaming up
for the OI sound, inspired by the word "boy." Naturally, Mr. Y can
get to work the OI sound as well.
w: Ralph DiGuglielmo d: Thomas McDonough
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57. The OO Sounds
What is in that soup Zelda (the witch from the other
side of the Zigzag Forest) made? Whatever it is, it has allowed Miss O to make
two new sounds with herself: the long OO in "school" and the short
OO in "good."
w: Ralph DiGuglielmo d: Thomas McDonough
NOTE: We last saw Zelda and Zero the Owl in Episode 11. Now that Miss O has come for a visit, Zero no longer wears a red 0 on a chain around his neck.
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58. The AU Sound
A jaunt through a fun house proves awfully scary for
Miss A and Miss U. In the process, they agree to make a new sound in the Divided
Catching Clue Box. Mr. W is called upon to take Miss U's place in said clue
box when the time is right.
w: Ralph DiGuglielmo d: Jeffrey Jones (III)
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59. Sentences, Part One
What are those strange marks hovering over Letter People
Land? Miss U, Mr. S, and Miss O introduce themselves to the three punctuation
marks, who instruct how to construct and read sentences.
w: Jeffrey Jones (III) d: Jeffrey Jones (III)
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60. Sentences, Part Two
The seventh game of the World Series pits the Letter
People Land Clue Boxes in a jam at Mudville. They are down by three runs in
the ninth inning. To compound matters, the fans back home can't get the game
action. All they have are transmitted sentences about the final two at-bats.
w: Thomas McDonough d: Thomas McDonough
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(Thanks to William Rice for all this information - as
posted on tvtome.com)